This event is now closed. Registration for the IES-ETS PIAAC Trainings Research Conference on December 5, 2018 has been moved to this website: http://www.cvent.com/d/zgqntk.

Using the PIAAC Databases for Interdisciplinary Research

Summary

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), in collaboration with the Educational Testing Service (ETS), sponsored a series of training workshops for individual researchers and research teams to explore and use data and assessment tools from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

These workshops were designed for those who want to go beyond computing basic statistics with the
PIAAC databases. During the workshops participants were trained to conduct simple and complex
analysis with the PIAAC data. The
general day-to-day schedule of the workshops included both
presentations and hands-on practical assignments using the PIAAC databases. Accommodation and sustenance costs to participate in these workshops was funded by a grant from IES. For details on the funding available for these workshops, please refer to the "Workshop Fees and Funding" page.

Participants in these workshops are encouraged to submit a research paper to an IES/ETS sponsored conference that will take place in Washington, D.C. on December 2018. Partial funding to participate in this conference is available to qualifying participants.

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These training workshops and conference are sponsored through grant R305B160020 to Educational Testing Service (ETS) from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. While the content of this website and training materials were developed under a grant from the Department of Education, they do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the U.S. Federal Government.